Toyota GT 86 prices appear – Toyota GT 86 prices appear Toyota has appear that the new GT 86 will alpha from £24,995
The Toyota GT 86 will be priced from £24,995 if it goes on auction in June. This agency that the 197bhp 2.0-litre rear-wheel-drive sports car can be castigation for £5,000 beneath than a Nissan 370Z, £3,000 beneath than an entry-level Lotus Elise and £300 beneath than a VW Golf GTI.

The GT 86 was developed by Subaru and Toyota as a collective project, and it uses a direct-injection four-cylinder boxer engine akin to either a six-speed chiral or six-speed consecutive gearbox. The rear-wheel-drive apparatus draws afflatus from Toyota’s AE 86 from the Eighties, which has acquired band cachet a part of Japanese car fans.

Our aboriginal drive in Japan appear that the Toyota was somewhat accurate to its afflatus – acknowledgment to its sharp turn-in, basal physique cycle and accomplished grip. It’ was bright that the anatomy can handle added power, and that’s absolutely what Toyota claims it intended, as the GT 86 is advised to accommodate a foundation for customisation and, in the process, bear the cast some abundant bare believability a part of enthusiasts.

Toyota expects to advertise about 4,000 GT 86s in the UK anniversary year, while Subaru has anticipation 1,000 anniversary sales for its BRZ. Prices accept not been appear for the BRZ, which aswell goes on auction in June. 

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MINI Highgate Convertible MINI reveals addition special-edition model, called afterwards Highgate in arctic London
This is the MINI Convertible Highgate appropriate edition. It takes its name from the absolute residential breadth of London and offers a amount of different beheld cues to analyze it from the accepted MINI. 

They cover a characteristic Ice Chocolate brownish acrylic that has a dejected lustre in absolute sunlight, akin with a aphotic amber soft-top that aswell has a brownish flash in ablaze light. The Highgate can aswell be called in Midnight Atramentous brownish or White Silver metallic, with mirror caps in your called hue.

Regardless of colour, the Highgate’s beanie appearance amber and atramentous stripes with ablaze dejected edging. There’s aswell an absolute ‘Union Jack inspired’ 17-inch bluff admixture caster architecture with an aluminium accomplishment that, calm with Highgate badging, completes the exoteric treatment.

Inside the Highgate has Aphotic Truffle covering with ablaze allegory bond and dejected piping. Again, dejected account extends to the accessory batten and handbrake stitching, while there’s aswell a set of stainless animate pedals and MINI’s Chrome Line autogenous amalgamation fitted.

The Highgate amalgamation is offered on the MINI Cooper, Cooper S, Cooper D and Cooper SD Convertibles, in either six-speed chiral or automated form.

The MINI Convertible Highgate will be accessible from March, with an accepted amount exceptional of £1500. This agency a starting amount of £18,735 for the Cooper Highgate Convertible manual.

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Gas-powered Jaguar C-X75 Coventry branch tasked with architecture turbines for Jaguar C-X75 is opened

Jaguar’s ancestor company, Tata, has formally opened the branch that will body the gas turbines for the Jaguar C-X75 supercar. The Bladon Jets Engineering Centre in Coventry will apply 15 humans and abode the accessories for the assembly of micro gas turbines, which the aggregation has a apparent for. 

The 95bhp turbines counterbalance 35kg each, accept beneath affective locations than an centralized agitation engine and don’t charge oil lubrication or baptize cooling, which offers packaging and weight advantages. In the C-X75, they will amalgamate with four absolute electric motors at anniversary caster to forward the Jaguar from 0-62mph in 3.4sec, accord it a ambit of 560 afar and afford a simple 28g/km of CO2.

Only a scattering of C-X75s will be adapted with the turbines, admitting Tata owning a pale in Bladon. The majority of cars, which aren’t accepted to access until 2015, instead will run a four-cylinder turbo engine developed by Formula One aggregation Williams.

 

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Audi A3 spy pictures – Audi A3 spy pictures Our spies accept bent the new Audi A3 testing
The third-generation Audi A3 has been spotted testing abundantly undisguised. These pictures appearance the three-door A3 – one of four physique styles set to arise – with bluff curve and a added accelerating waistline.

The Audi ancestors face charcoal but there’s a added activating headlight design, agnate to those apparent on the new Q3. The affair continues at the rear, with a tail-light architecture that accomplish up appear the car’s waistline and wraps about the ancillary of the car.

The spy pictures aswell shows an advancing foreground bonanza design, which could be a assurance of the S band package.

The new A3 will be congenital on the new Volkswagen Group MQB platform, which will aswell anatomy the base for the next VW Golf. Thanks to the new platform’s technology and packaging advantages, the new A3 will be lighter, safer and action a host of drive and infotainment options.

Engines are accepted to ambit from a 1.2 turbo four-cylinder, through to a 211hp 2.0-litre petrol as able-bodied as 1.6 and 2.0-litre diesels. The new A3 will aswell be offered as a frugal TDIe and a hybrid, as appear by Auto Express.

The Audi A3 will be appear at the Geneva Motor Show in March. A slight access in prices is expected, starting at about £15,500.

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Fiat 500L appear Fiat has appear aboriginal official pictures of its new 500L MPV advanced of the Geneva Motor Show
First pictures of the new Fiat 500L MPV accept been appear advanced of its admission at the Geneva Motor Show next month.

The Fiat 500L – the L stands for ‘Large’ – is a beyond and added applied humans carrier adaptation of the Fiat 500 on which it is based. It replaces the Multipla and will battling the MINI Countryman and Nissan Note.

Auto Express aboriginal biconcave the new archetypal backward endure year and, as our absolute renderings predicted, the new archetypal gets a 500-style nose, with ample lights belted by lower spotlamps and a simple, single-bar high grille.

Details are deficient but Fiat has said that buyers will be able to accept from two petrol engines – the two-cylinder TwinAir and 1.4-litre turbo – and the 1.3-litre MutliJet agent engine.

The new MPV is based on a adapted Panda platform, and is accepted to be offered with 5 or seven seats. Front-wheel drive will be standard, but a 4×4 advantage will aswell be offered. 

The Fiat 500L will go on auction in Europe at the end of the year, with prices accepted to alpha from £13,000. Further data are acceptable to be appear nearer to the Geneva Motor Show at the alpha of March.

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Citroen DS5 prices Citroen DS5 prices to alpha from £22,400 and top out at £32,200 for the diesel-electric amalgam model
The Citroen DS5 will amount from £22,400 if it goes on auction in April, but range-topping Hybrid4 models will amount as abundant as £32,200. 

Citroen sees the DS5 as an another to models like the BMW 3 Series, boasting a comfortable berth and adventurous drive. The ambit bliss off with a 1.6-litre e-HDi engine with 109bhp, but a 158bhp 2.0-litre agent and 197bhp turbocharged petrol engine are aswell available. Topping the ambit is the diesel-electric amalgam variant. 

DSign is the a lot of basal trim-level and comes able with keyless go, cruise control, electric windows all-round, air con and Bluetooth. DStyle models get allotment covering seats, sat-nav and a abandoning camera. The flagship DSport models get abounding covering beating seats and foreground parking sensors. 

Citroen predicts the 2.0-litre agent with 158bhp in DStyle trim, which costs £25,900, will be the a lot of accepted model. 

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Smart Fortwo facelift Adapted Smart Fortwo gets a new attending and adapted autogenous trim options
The Smart ForTwo city-limits car has been accustomed a facelift, and these are the aboriginal pictures of the adapted model. 

The capital changes are to the foreground of the car, area a redesigned grille noticeably incorporates the Smart logo. The air inlets – which acclimated to be on either ancillary of the bonanza – are now one individual unit. 

Inside, the updates are bound to new trim options such as a leather/fabric aggregate for the seats. 

No changes accept been fabricated to engines in the ForTwo line-up, so the 1.0-litre three–cylinder petrol engine comes with 60bhp, 70bhp or 101bhp in the Brabus model. The alone agent advantage is the 54bhp 0.8-litre unit.

The facelifted Smart ForTwo will be accessible from April 2012.

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Smart ForTwo facelift Adapted Smart ForTwo gets a new attending and adapted autogenous trim options
The Smart ForTwo city-limits car has been accustomed a facelift, and these are the aboriginal pictures of the adapted model. 

The capital changes are to the foreground of the car, area a redesigned grille noticeably incorporates the Smart logo. The air inlets – which acclimated to be on either ancillary of the bonanza – are now one individual unit. 

Inside, the updates are bound to new trim options such as a leather/fabric aggregate for the seats. 

No changes accept been fabricated to engines in the ForTwo line-up, so the 1.0-litre three–cylinder petrol engine comes with 60bhp, 70bhp or 101bhp in the Brabus model. The alone agent advantage is the 54bhp 0.8-litre unit.

The facelifted Smart ForTwo will be accessible from April 2012.

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New VW MQB apparent Volkswagen reveals the new belvedere that will anatomy the base of the next Golf and Audi A3
This is the new VW Golf – and the new Audi A3 and new Skoda Octavia. In fact, this anatomy will appealing abundant affirm the majority of VW Group models, from Polo-sized superminis to those as big as the next Passat. 

Called MQB, the new belvedere represents abundant added than a anatomy that can be acclimatized for use in a advanced array of models. VW calls it “the courage of ablaze and safe cars” as it aswell encapsulates new failing drivetrains, hi-tech assurance accessories and even iPad-style infotainment systems.  
 
It moves the bold on from artlessly alms a anatomy that can be continued or beneath to fit altered cars, to one that shares its electrical wiring, engines, transmissions, air-conditioning systems, bench backs and infotainment systems. It even includes the factories the cars will be congenital in – for the aboriginal time acceptance VW, Audi and Skoda models to be congenital on the aforementioned assembly line.
 
But the a lot of important car of the lot is the new Golf. And the Mk7 will represent a huge bound forward. Thanks to hot formed animate that’s six-times stronger than accepted steel, added aluminium in the suspension, calm with failing air-con, it will counterbalance up to 60kg beneath than the Mk6. VW says it will counterbalance as abundant as the Mk4. 
 
Under the beanie will be a ambit of new engines, all of which will accept the aforementioned bend of angle – whether petrol or agent – in the engine bay. This will acceleration up the assembly band and acquiesce the aforementioned transmissions to be acclimated throughout. In fact, engine and gearbox variants accept been bargain by 88 per cent. 

The petrol agency consists of a new 1.2 TSI turbo four-cylinder with 84bhp or 104bhp, and a 1.4 TSI with 120bhp or 138bhp. The closing has already appeared in the Audi A1 Sportback, and appearance butt deactivation, so it can run on two cylinders beneath a ablaze throttle, extenuative fuel. Thanks to failing aluminium, the engine weighs 16kg beneath than the 1.4 TSi in the accepted Golf. 
 
The new Golf will aswell be accessible as a hybrid, with the 1.4 TSI additional by a 20kW electric motor. It produces 145bhp and 250Nm of torque. This will aswell be accessible as a constituent hybrid, this time with an 80kW electric motor. This can acknowledgment up to 141mpg and afford beneath than 46g/km of CO2. 
 
As for diesels, there will be a new agency of 1.6 and 2.0-litre TDI diesels with ability alignment from 89bhp to 187bhp. There is no chat on a BlueMotion variant, but VW says even the basal engines abate CO2 emissions by 7g/km, so apprehend a new Golf BlueMotion to afford beneath than 90g/km of CO2 and accomplish added than 80mpg. There will aswell be a low-capacity 800cc agent actualization in the future. Seven-speed DSG automated and six-speed chiral gearboxes will feature, too. 

The new Golf will aswell be far safer. Thanks to a camera army aloft the rear-view mirror, it will accept alley assurance recognition, lane accumulate assistance, ablaze abetment – which automatically dims the lights to anticipate admirable advancing cartage – and adaptive cruise control. It will aswell accept a Mercedes-style fatigue abetment system, which warns the disciplinarian if he or she is about to abatement comatose at the wheel. 
 
Other Mercedes-style assurance accessories includes pre-crash – which shuts the windows and pre-tensions the seatbelts if it senses a blast is approaching – as able-bodied as a arrangement that can advice abstain assorted crashes. In added words, it will automatically administer the brakes afterwards the aboriginal blow if the car senses it is at accident of a accessory blow – a archetypal motorway blast situation. This is in accession to low-speed blast acknowledgment for use in towns. 
 
VW will aswell barrage its next-generation automated parking system, which not alone steers the car into a parellel parking space, but reverses it into a multi-storey car parking space, too.  
 
To aid handling, the Golf will get a development of a new electronically-controlled cogwheel which was decidedly activated in a VW Scirocco chase car at the Nurburgring 24 Hours. In accession to absorption ascendancy and the XDS cyberbanking differential, it offers torque vectoring, and is said to advice turn-in and acquiesce the Golf to authority on to its band bigger if cornering. There is aswell a new electric council system.
 
Inside, the MK7 Golf will get a new touchscreen interface on the centre animate which works in a agnate way to an iPad, acceptance the disciplinarian to use a ‘sweep’ action to admission altered information. It will be accessible with 5 and eight-inch screens.
 
The MQB belvedere will aswell acquiesce the next Golf to be bigger looking: “Because of the position of the engine, MQB agency beneath foreground overhangs, which in about-face allows us to amplify the attending of the car and accomplish it added adventurous with a lower centre of gravity,” said arch of exoteric architecture Andreas Mindt. Bigger packaging will acquiesce beyond auto and a best wheelbase. Mindt aswell said that the Cross Coupe concept’s added ‘face’, with its radiator grille chip with the headlights and daytime active lights, would be a big affection of accessible models.
 
The aboriginal VW Group archetypal to get MQB will be the new Audi A3, which debuts in the summer – we’ll again see it in the new Mk7 Golf, which is set to access at the Paris Motor Show in September, afore traveling on auction in 2013.

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SsangYong Korando LE Limited-edition SsangYong Korando LE adds added accessories and costs £17,995

SsangYong has appear data of a new limited-edition adaptation of its VW Tiguan-sized Korando. Called the Korando LE, it adds added accessories and is getting offered with a new accounts accord and five-years chargeless application befuddled in.

Available in Grand White, Vitamin Red or Space Black, added exoteric kit includes 18-inch admixture wheels, a rear addle-brain and aloofness glass. On the inside, it gets acrimonious foreground seats, a covering council caster and gearlever, cruise ascendancy and parking sensors. The alone engine best is a 173bhp 2.0-litre agent with CO2 emissions of 157g/km

Based on a banknote amount of £17,995, the 4.5 per cent APR accounts accord is based on 60 account payments of £259 with a drop of £3,744.78. On top of SsangYong‘s five-year absolute breadth warranty, five-years chargeless application is included too, based on an anniversary breadth of 12,500.

The SsangYong Korando LE is on auction now and bound to 150 units.

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